From: cfmpublic@ns.sympatico.ca   
      
   On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:58:26 +0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"   
    wrote:   
      
   >conklin  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>From the Philadelphia Inquirer:  (wwww.philly.com)   
   >   
   >>>Seeking to improve on-time performance of its long-distance passenger   
   >>>trains, Amtrak has filed a complaint against Canadian National Railway, a   
   >>>major operator of freight trains.   
   >   
   >>>Amtrak asked the federal Surface Transportation Board to investigate   
   >>>Canadian National for delaying passenger trains that operate on the   
   >>>freight railroad in Illinois.   
   >   
   >>>Under federal law, passenger trains are required to receive preference   
   >>>over freight trains in dispatching of trains. Amtrak has blamed freight   
   >>>operators for a big drop in Amtrak's on-time performance in the past year.   
   >   
   >>Freight trains make money.   
   >   
   >Not on that line, they don't.   
      
   Huh, the Canadian National is definitely profitable and the Chicago -   
   Carbondale portion or at least that north of the Edgewood cutoff is   
   part of the Chicago - New Orleans main line.  Whether the line has   
   been rationalized so much that it can't handle both passenger and   
   freight or even 50 mph freight and higher speed inter-modal freight is   
   a different question.   
      
   Clark Morris   
      
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